christmas time.

Christmas time!  This post is mostly us just hanging out.  We hosted a Christmas Open House this year, so I was prrrretty busy the whole month (it felt like) planning, shopping, cleaning, crafting, and of course all the other norm around here.  Soo, I didn't get a million chances to take pictures but of course I got SOME!  ;-)

Here's a few of the crazy girl =)

(Excuse the mess, it's one of her favorite activities.)

She LOVES to open and close the door.  She'll grab on to whomever it is she wants in or out of her room, take them there, and then close the door.  There's no escape ;-)

(Please also excuse this messy bathroom shot.  It has since been re-done and I love it a million times more than this oh-so-gorgeous-black-set that's been there since before I moved in! ;-) )

But anyways - the girl loves her big-girl potty.  She can't quite figure out it's real purpose just yet, but absolutely loves to sit on it whenever she gets the chance.  I'm not sure if "Penguin-Girl" has made an appearance in the blog yet, but she recently took a trip to the bottom of the real toilet bowl, thanks to her great pal, Kayden.  Gross!

<3

A bit more beach.

I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the camera's matched up for long lol.. I already forgot some of the beach!  Here's just some more of our fun Florida beach day .. Kayden had a BLAST.  Shell collecting, dirt digging, water splashing, sand squishing ... fun stuff!

Our Fam in FL.

The rest of the gang left, and we decided we would stay a few extra days - so these are the pictures from that.  We went out to a great dinner, and she had so much fun playing peek-a-boo with this table cloth that I had to snap a pic =).

We went up to the nearest zoo one of the days - we love to go to the zoos in all the places we visit =).  We're getting our number up there these days!

It was fun to see how different the zoo was from ours; so many trees and green and swampy instead of desert dirt, and cactus.  And the walkway was raised up on a bridge, instead of a dirt walkway or a sildwalk.  Verrrry interesting ... we kept our eyes out for gators under there! ;-)

HAHA!  We had a blast with these things!! 

A perfect little size bench for munchkin.  I want this for our yard!! 

Our hotel was in the "Disney Loop", so we went down and walked around Downtown Disney one night, people watched, shopped, looked for food but ended up going to Tacobell.  LOL!

Lol - this was the camera set on a ledge, whatever works, right? =/

These are LEGOS!  Ammmazing! 

One day was to the beach!  Cocoa Beach.  It was about an hour drive, each way.  That would be if we didn't get 45 minutes there and realized we forgot the camera bag in the room!  GAH!  We had to turn around lol.  Whopsie.  But well worth it.

First steps in the ocean =).

We sat.  And played.  In the mud.  For like, 4 hours.  She was totally content, digging, sitting, mixing, pouring, shoveling, dumping, squishing, squeezing, collecting, destroying, and laughing.  Who wouldn't be I suppose.  We were too, after all.  We dug enough into the sand that we made a mini-pool so that was perfect for the three of us to keep us happy and cool to play!

Our poor little girl was SO pooped after all this Florida fun.  And so were we.  Vacation was great, but I must admit, it's always good to come to your home, and your bed.  Nothing beats it.

We made it back through the airport, with some new struggles.  Cleaning and unloading the rental car, in the line, gah talk about pressure.  Earlier flight.  More stuff to pack on the way home.  A tearing carry-on bag =(  Sad!  We got to take our car-seat on the flight - but that created the issue of Kayden kicking the old man's seat in front of her.  We gave him fair-warning, I must say, and he choose to sit there, but I'd imagine it wasn't the most fun spot .. poor man.  lol.  But we made it!  Yay =)